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" ... readers will be frantically
turning pages and fully invested in Abrahams's message of true love
conquering all obstacles."
- Kirkus Reviews
"The best writer of psychological
suspense around."
- Laura Miller, Talk of the Nation, NPR
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Booklist: Starred Review
"It's common enough to call a book a page-turner, but here's one that should've been printed on a scroll - those pesky page turns take far too much time. With an engulfing plot, multifaceted characters, and a plausibility rare to the genre, Abrahams's latest beats you senseless and leaves you for dead. Great, huh? When a budget crunch squeezes out his school's baseball program, 16-year-old Wyatt moves across the state to take advantage of another school's team. It's there that he meets Greer - a few years older, beautiful, and equipped with wildly fluctuating mood swings. The frequent arguments between the two are the book's heart, skipping fluently and believably between impatience, attraction, desperation, and hope. Like almost all the characters in the book, Greer's good/bad status is perpetually in doubt, especially when her incarcerated dad helps arrange a meeting between Wyatt and his biological father, who also resides in the local prison. When Wyatt begins to suspect his father's innocence, he gets curious - and in trouble. Gutsier and sexier than most YA novels dare, Abrahams's thriller wrenches guts with a Richard Price-like facility. Readers will be as irretrievably drawn in as Wyatt."
- Daniel Kraus
Writing as Spencer
Quinn: Dog On It, first in the Chet and Bernie series.
In Paperback
Abrahams
constructs a powder keg of
suspense ... He manages to imbue this page-turner with themes of racial
and economic injustice while conjuring the ghost of Hamlet's father to
hover in the wings. Stellar..
- Hallie Ehpron, the Boston Globe
"I swear, if one more literary
person says in that oh-so-condescendng tone, 'Oh, I don't read ...
mysteries,' I'm going to take a novel by Peter Abrahams and smack him
on his smug little head." - Michele Ross, Cleveland Plain Dealer
A Publishers Weekly
Best Book of 2006.
An Entertainment Weekly
Best Book of 2006.
"... some delicious twists and
that rare thriller pleasure:
a perfect ending." -
Entertainment Weekly.
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Book Three in the New York Times best-selling Echo Falls series.
I've read the two previous Echo Falls
mysteries featuring Ingrid (Down the Rabbit Hole and Behind the
Curtain) and enjoyed them, but I think this one may be the best of all.
- Claire Rosser, KLIATT (starred review)
Finalist for the 2007
Agatha Award, Best
Children's/Young Adult
Fiction.
2006 Agatha Award
Winner Best Children's/
Young Adult Fiction.
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